The Kassel Corpus of Clause Linking
The Kassel Corpus of Clause Linking is part of a larger project on the grammar of New High German led by Vilmos Ägel. The project takes as its starting point the assump- tion that equal consideration of both oral and written language is essential in...
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The Kassel Corpus of Clause Linking is part of a larger project on the grammar of New High German led by Vilmos Ägel. The project takes as its starting point the assump- tion that equal consideration of both oral and written language is essential in order to understand developments in grammar during the New High German period. The Kassel Corpus of Clause Linking includes four texts from the period 1650-1700 and four texts from 1850-1900, with three texts from each period exemplifying oracy (imme- diacy) and one text literacy (distance). The corpus was annotated for grammatical features which are relevant for clause linking, such as predicates, subjects and connec- tors. A major issue in the process of annotation was to identify correlations between single grammatical features and types of clause linking, such as coordination, subordination and ellipsis. In the paper we will explain the principles which formed the basis for compiling and annotating the corpus, and illustrate how correlations between single grammatical features and types of clause linking may be established. We will also provide an example (non-integrative ellipsis) of how the annotated corpus re- veals differences between immediacy and distance, as well as showing historical developments.
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